12 example sentences using dirigible.
Dirigible used in a sentence
Dirigible in a sentence as a noun
As someone who grew up reading Popular Mechanics, I just want to say "Where's my dirigible!
Since it's such a crazy idea, why not build a gigantic dirigible to take it up to high altitude?
The helium in a balloon/dirigible is under pressure, so its density would be somewhat greater than 15% that of air.
"Hindenburg" : a really nice dirigible, until something bad happened in New Jersey.
After a long walk up 7 flights of stairs I always imagined what it would be like to have small aircraft, like a dirigible, pull up to my window and hop out.
An equal and opposite energy would be transferred to the counterweight, so you need a lot of mass, which would require an even more massive dirigible.
Dirigible in a sentence as an adjective
Suppose we set a goal to build a dirigible the size of a small town that could float up in the air and people could live on it and it would have an expected lifespan of at least 30 years?
Would investing millions in developing an engine that was light enough to allow flight in heavier than air vehicles when we already have a dirigible/train/ship network that is perfectly adequate for passenger and good transport.
I believe his suggestion is to use the dirigible to lift the Slingatron into the high atmosphere where the tremendous atmospheric drag will be substantially reduced, thus making a crazy idea slightly less crazy and at the same time, more crazy.
Why when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot of the hovering dirigible that read the instructions and passed them to the ALU, which was another fellow with an abacus.
Why, when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot of the hovering dirigible that read the instructions and passed them to the ALU, which was another fellow with an abacus.
> It too was scattered with lights; of small towns, villages, individual\nhouses, lanterns on beaches and smaller aircraft, most of them come\nout to welcome the vacuum dirigible.> The two slowly revolving gondola sections slid gradually to a halt,\npreparatory to docking.